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2002 APSE Convention

• Maximize your funCathy Henkel: Here's a head start on planning your free time and food stops in Seattle.

• Sonic boomerCathy Henkel: In 15 years, Howard Schultz built Starbucks from a small coffee roaster in Seattle to a multi-billion dollar global giant. He'll now try to do it on a smaller scale with the NBA's Sonics and the WNBA's Storm. And he'll tell us how as the keynote speaker at APSE's Seattle convention.